UB Asian Studies Faculty Members Win National Book Awards
Two members of the University at Buffalo faculty affiliated with the university’s Asian Studies Program have received national awards for work in their fields. Ramya Sreenivasan, assistant professor of history in the UB College of Arts and Sciences, has received the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies for “The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in Indian History, c. 1500-1900.”
Yoshiko Nozaki, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy in the Graduate School of Education, has received an Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the American Educational Research Association Division B (Curriculum Studies) for her recently published “War Memory, Nationalism, and Education in Postwar Japan, 1945-2007: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo’s Court Challenges.” Read more.
